The rise and fall of National Women's Hospital : a history / author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryder, Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's health services--New Zealand--History--20th century.

Women's health services.

Women's health services--Moral and ethical aspects--New Zealand.

National Women's Hospital (Auckland, N.Z.)--History.

National Women's Hospital (Auckland, N.Z.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Natural childbirth and rooming-in; artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation; sterilisation and abortion: women's health and reproduction went through a revolution in the twentieth century as scientific advances confronted ethical and political dilemmas. In New Zealand, the major site for this revolution was National Women's Hospital. Established in Auckland in 1946, with a purpose-built building that opened in 1964, National Women's was the home of medical breakthroughs by Sir William (Bill) Liley and Sir Graham (Mont) Liggins; of the Lawson quintuplets and the ?glamorous gynaec

Contents:

1 Childbirth Services in New Zealand, 1900-1939; 2 National Women's Hospital and the Postgraduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; 3 A Tripod: Patient Care, Research and Teaching, the 1950s to 1963; 4 A Woman's World: Mothers, Nurses and Midwives at National Women's, the 1950s to 1963; 5 From Premature Nursery to Paediatric Department, 1950s to 1963; 6 A Bright New Age: Advances in Reproductive Medicine, 1964-1980s; 7 The New Patient and Perinatal Medicine; 8 Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion; 9 Obstetrics and the Winds of Change, 1964-1980s

10 Feminists, Midwives and National Women's Hospital11 A Hospital in Trouble, 1990-2004; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 21, 2014).

ISBN:

1-77558-726-6

1-77558-723-1

OCLC:

870868025